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Cuyahoga County Democratic Party retains Shontel Brown as its chairwoman, Brown winning over C. Ellen Connally, who is also Black.... Brown is the first Black and first woman to hold the powerful post....A Congresswoman Marcia Fudge protege, Brown said she is truly grateful for those who watched and witnessed her sincere desire to unite, grow and strengthen the party and that she looks forward to carrying the momentum into the November election and elections to come.....Former president Barack Obama carried Cuyahoga County, a Democratic stronghold, in 2008, and when he was reelected in 2012, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Richard Chordray, an Obama ally, will need strong Democratic support as he faces Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine, the Republican nominee for governor, in the general election on November 6, 2018....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Cuyahoga County Councilwoman and Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chairwoman Shontel Brown, the first Black and first female to hold the powerful post, and of whom executive committee members of the county Democratic party voted to retain as chair via an election on June 9, 2018 C. Ellen Connally,  a retired Cleveland judge and former Cuyahoga County Council president who lost an election on Saturday, June 9, 2018 in her bid to unseat Shontel Brown as chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party   ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Bar

White cop that killed Luke Stewart will not be charged: Cuyahoga County grand jury refuses to indict the White Euclid, Ohio cop that gunned down unarmed Black motorist Luke Stewart, his mother, Mary Stewart, of whom spoke to Clevelandurbannews.com editor Kathy Wray Coleman as to what she says is the erroneous killing of her 23-year-old son, and as racial unrest mounts.....Euclid is a largely White middle class suburb of Cleveland....Cuyahoga County grand juries routinely refuse to indict cops that kill Blacks on criminal charges, from the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police in 2014 to a host of other Cleveland police killings in the past five years, including Tanisha Anderson, Malissa Williams, Timothy Russell, and aspiring rapper Kenneth Smith.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com, Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, and Imperialwomencoalition.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Euclid police fatal shooting victim Luke Stewart, 23 and unarmed at the time of his untimely death in March by a White cop who escaped an indictment on criminal charges on Tuesday by a largely White Cuyahoga County grand jury. Stewart's mother, Mary Stewart, and his sister, Tierra Stewart, spoke on the loss of their loved one to editor Kathy Wray Coleman of  ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the   KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4.8 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK

Activist and Cleveland NAACP attorney lead effort to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson amid the Black mayor's opposition to DOJ findings of police abuse and a pattern of excessive force killings by police of unarmed Blacks, the Plain Dealer Newspaper reports

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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson By Kathy Wray Coleman , editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's leaders in Black digital  news.     Coleman is a 22-year investigative journalist and political and legal reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio.   ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) Cleveland Black Contractors Group President Norm Edwards leads a protest years ago in front of Cleveland City Hall over a death of contracts and jobs to area Black contractors (Photo by Cleveland.Com, the online newspaper of the Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper ( www.cleveland.com ) Cleveland Criminal Defense Attorney Michael Nelson Sr.,  also an attorney for the Cleveland Chapter NAACP U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder CLEVELAND, Ohio- According to a Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper article written by reporter Leila Atassi  www.cleve

Breaking News: Cleveland cop indicted on manslaughter charges for deadly 137 shots shooting of unarmed Blacks Malissa Williams and Tim Russell, 12 other cops that did the shooting go free, 5 police supervisors charged: Cleveland NAACP, activists unnerved, community activists call grand jury decision unjust, racist, shameful, racial unrest mounts, Police Chief Calvin Williams calls grand jury decision "a step toward healing our community"

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Cleveland police cars chase two unarmed Blacks from downtown Cleveland to neighboring East Cleveland the night of Nov . 29 , 2012. The 23 minute car chase ended in the parking lot of Heritage Middle School in East Cleveland and culminated in 13 non- Black Cleveland police officers firing a total of 137 bullets at Malissa Williams 30, and Timothy Ray Russell, 43, the driver of the 1979 Chevy Malibu. Both Russell and Williams were Black, and both died at the scene. On Friday, a Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted one of the 13 cops, Micahel Brelo, who jumped aboard the hood of Russell's car and fired 49 shots through the front windshield while the other 12 went free, though five police supervisors were charged with misdemeanor dereliction of duty. Brelo has been charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter. Shooting Victim Malissa Williams Shooting Victim Timothy Ray Russell  Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson Cuya